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Migrating from Tiles to SiteMesh in AppFuse 1.5

In this blog I explain how I’ve migrated from Struts Tiles to SiteMesh in a AppFuse 1.5 project. I wanted to do that because I was fedup of dealing with Tiles aliases and also because I’ve used SiteMesh in other projects and it’s really easy to use.

Action source code

The most painful job is to change all your xDoclet tags so that actions forward to a page and not a tile. So you have to change all action classes that are in %ROOT%srcwebmyappwebappaction for example, refering to your tiles-config.xml, change